From: John Wells <lists@...>
Date: 2005-04-27T22:07:54+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Precompiling Ruby programs

Lothar Scholz said:
> Don't use the exe converters that other persons mentioned. In a previous
> discussion
> about this i posted a generic 5 lines crack patch for all of them. Use
> google to
> search the comp.lang.ruby group for this patch and the discussion.
>
> You must extend the ruby interpreter and change the internals of some
> function names to do it. This will work, then use one of the
> commerical copy protection systems like armadillo to protect the
> source code from decryption.

So essentially, you're saying yes, it is possible, but man...not easy ;).

Wonder if this is a potential commercial product?  I know my company would
be willing to pay for a supported option.